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2. Disasters in "development" contexts: contradictions and options for a preventive approach
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hewitt, Kenneth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11372
- Journal Title:
- Jamba : Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(2) : Art. #91
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ.org). 8 pages., Author used a social vulnerability approach with a goal of improving conditions for persons and places most at risk. "However, this approach faces serious contradictions in both the disasters and development scenes." "...The promise of 'developed nations,' build around massive use of fossil fuels, puts global and African economic growth on a collision course with environmental calamity."
3. Farmers’ Perception and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Central Mali
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Amadou, Traore (author), Falconnier, Gatien (author), and Mammoutou, Kouressy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-01
- Published:
- United States: American Meteorological Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12474
- Journal Title:
- Weather, Climate, and Society
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14 (1)
- Notes:
- 18 pages, Adaptation of the agricultural sector to climate change is crucial to avoid food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. Farmers’ perception of climate change is a crucial element in adaptation process. The aim of this study was (i) to compare farmers’ perception of climate change with actual weather data recorded in central Mali, (ii) to identify changes in agricultural practices implemented by farmers to adapt to climate change, and (iii) to investigate the link between farmers’ perception of climate change and implementation of adaptation practices. Focus group discussions and individual surveys were conducted to identify climate-related changes perceived by farmers and agricultural adaptation strategies they consider relevant to cope with these changes. A majority (>50%) of farmers perceived an increase in temperature, decrease in rainfall, shortening of growing season, early cessation of rainfall, and increase in the frequency of dry spells at the beginning of the growing season. In line with farmers’ perception, analysis of climate data indicated (i) an increase in mean annual temperature and minimum growing season temperature and (ii) a decrease in total rainfall. Farmers’ perception of early cessation of rainfall and more-frequent drought periods were not detected by climate data analysis. To cope with the decrease in rainfall and late start of the growing season, farmers used drought-tolerant cultivars and implemented water-saving technologies. Despite a perceived warming, no specific adaptation to heat stress was mentioned by farmers. We found evidence of a link between farmers’ perception of climate change and the implementation of some adaptation options. Our study highlights the need for a dialogue between farmers and researchers to develop new strategies to compensate for the expected negative impacts of heat stress on agricultural productivity.
4. Majorities see government efforts to protect the environment as insufficient
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- USA: Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11392
- Notes:
- 25 pages., Via online., "National survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27-April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey."
5. Talking about climate change in Trump country: in Minnesota, "Rural Climate Dialogues" get people across the political spectrum to discuss global warming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ostrander, Madeline (author)
- Format:
- Report summary
- Publication Date:
- 2017-12-14
- Published:
- USA: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10566
- Notes:
- 10 pages., via website, The national magazine of the Sierra Club., FOR 47 YEARS, HARVEY KRAGE LIVED IN a white farmhouse with red shutters on the side of a bluff about 11 miles from the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota. He and his family kept ducks in a pair of ponds and drank water from the springhouse in their backyard. For three decades, Krage commuted from the farm through a woodland of red cedar and black maple, past corn and bean fields, to the small city of Winona, where he retreaded massive, heavy construction tires for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Then for another decade, he drove the company's semitrailers, passing the long hours with talk radio, especially the diatribes of right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh. That's how he first heard about climate change, "about how crazy these scientists were."